+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE. - Volume 18, Issue 13, September 24, 2019. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. ++ISSUE 13 CONTENTS. SECTION ONE: New references. What's new at the Web Design Reference site? http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/ New links in these categories: 01: ACCESSIBILITY. 02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 03: DRUPAL. 04: EVALUATION & TESTING. 05: EVENTS. 06: HTML. 07: MISCELLANEOUS. 08: TOOLS. 09: USABILITY. SECTION TWO: 10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? [Contents ends.] ++ SECTION ONE: New references. +01: ACCESSIBILITY. Evaluating & Managing Accessibility in 3rd Party Web Content (Webinar Archive) By Aaron Cannon and Karl Cassel. "In this session we'll discuss all aspects of identifying 3rd party tools and app, assessing your risk and devise strategies for solving the 3rd party problems…" https://www.accessibilityonline.org/ada-tech/archives/110714 Comparison Captions - Size / Length (Video) By Meryl K. Evans. "…This puts two videos side-by-side so you can see why size matters. I've seen some show one or two words at a time. The captions fly and the fastest readers couldn't keep up, much less absorb the information. Exhausting… https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6579775550112489472/ Comparison Captions - Credits and Captions (Video) By Meryl K. Evans. "…It should not be a boxing match between credits and captions in a video Viewers want to see both…" https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6580498114405285888/ Video Caption Questions Answered By John Espirian. "This post answers some common questions about captioning your videos…" https://espirian.co.uk/video-captions/ Understanding SC 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions Last Modified on September 17, 2019 By Sathish Kumar. "The intention of this success criterion is to provide labels or instructions to form fields and controls which require user input…" https://www.digitala11y.com/understanding-sc-3-3-2-labels-or-instructions/ WCAG 2.1 and PDF Accessibility By Common Look. "…Learn more about what's new in 2.1 and how CommonLook is supporting it…" https://commonlook.com/wcag-2-1-and-pdf-accessibility/ Core Accessibility Concerns for Web Design Agencies By Karl Groves. "…1.) Be wary of indemnity or compliance certifications… 2.) Utilize Automated testing. Conservatively, automated testing will only be testing around 25%- 30% of WCAG Success Criteria… 3.) Know your CMS of choice and focus there… 4.) Know your limitations. Accessibility is a specialty. There is overlap with UX but an intimate knowledge of WCAG Standards and how they impact web properties is required…" http://blog.tenon.io/core-accessibility-concerns-for-web-design-agencies 2020 Presidential Candidates Are Making (Some) Progress On Website Accessibility By Abigail Abrams. "Andrew Yang may not be polling at the same level as the top tier Democratic presidential candidates, but there's at least one way in which he is leading the field: his website's accessibility…" https://time.com/5675691/2020-election-candidates-website-disability-accessibility/ Beyoncé Was Sued Over Her Website Violating the Americans With Disabilities Act. And You Could Be Too By Gwen Moran. "In January 2019, Beyoncé Knowles' company, Parkwood Entertainment, became the defendant in a class-action lawsuit alleging that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)…" https://fortune.com/2019/09/21/beyonce-lawsuit-website-ada-compliant/ Domino's Takes ADA Lawsuit Over Website Accessibility to the Supreme Court By Melissa Berdine. "…Even if Domino's wins the lawsuit, their victory won't exactly be one they can capitalize on from a PR standpoint. How does a pizza chain drum up excitement about being exclusive to abled users? They are quite literally going out of their way (and taking the expensive route, mind you) by pursuing further litigation, rather than just making their site accessible now…" https://www.emailonacid.com/blog/article/industry-news/dominos-ada-lawsuit/ +02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Keeping It Simple with CSS That Scales By Andy Bell. "This is the written version of my new talk, 'Keeping it simple with CSS that scales', which I first delivered at State of the Browser 2019…" https://hankchizljaw.com/wrote/keeping-it-simple-with-css-that-scales/ Jagged Little Pill: Issues with Rounded Buttons By Tyler Sticka. "Even though flat, minimal interfaces have been the rage for most of the decade, purely rectangular buttons aren't as common as you'd think. Designers like me frequently 'round' the corners, dulling those sharp points that might make an interactive element feel less inviting to tap or click…" https://cloudfour.com/thinks/jagged-little-pill-issues-with-rounded-buttons/ +03: COLOR. Re-approaching Color By Kevyn Arnott. "Sharing a new way to building color systems for accessible UIs that scale. Build your own with ColorBox.io…" https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88 +04: EVALUATION & TESTING. Discount Usability 30 Years (Video) By Jakob Nielsen "For 30 years, the recommendations have remained the same for improving usability in a UX design project on a tight budget: simplified user testing with 5 users, early test of paper prototypes, and heuristic evaluation." https://www.nngroup.com/videos/discount-usability-30-years/ A Heuristic Method to Evaluate Web Accessibility for Users With Low Vision By Patricia Acosta-Vargas et al. "This research used a modification of the Barrier Walkthrough method proposed by Giorgio Brajnik considering the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. The modification consisted of including persistence to determine the severity of an accessibility barrier. This method enabled the measurement of the accessibility of websites to test a new heuristic process and to obtain sample data for analysis…" http://hdl.handle.net/10045/96150 +05: EVENTS. ThunderPlains Developer Conference October 22, 2019. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A. https://2019.thunderplainsconf.com/ Web Directions Summit October 31-November 1, 2019. Sydney, Australia https://webdirections.org/wds/ Designing Accessible Cyberlearning: Recommendations and Lessons Learned November 7, 2019. Online https://go.3playmedia.com/wbn-11-07-2019-cyberlearning +06: HTML. An HTML Attribute Potentially Worth $4.4M to Chipotle By Jason Grigsby. "There are three key takeaways from Chipotle's order form that you should consider: 1.) Use HTML5 input features… 2.) Support autofill… 3.) Make autofill part of your test plans…" https://cloudfour.com/thinks/an-html-attribute-potentially-worth-4-4m-to-chipotle/ An HTML Element Potentially Worth $18M to Indiegogo Campaigns By Adrian Roselli. "…if Indiegogo had correctly implemented